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Patented Sept. 26, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HENS NEST Walter F. Leibenguth, Mill River, Mass.

Application November 11, 1936, Serial No. 110,379

1 Claim. (Cl. 119-45) This invention relates to hens nests and has resting freely upon the bottom member. A simifor its object to provide a nest which can be lar board II may be rested upon one or more readily cleaned; which can be used singly or in side wall structures functioning as a top for them multiple with common bottom and top; which and as a bottom for a superposed nest or row of 5 can be turned in a reverse direction when occanests. 5

sion demands without moving the nest bedding or If full benefit is to be derived from the advanhen, and which can be manufactured cheaply, tag-es of the nest, the top board is preferably susand inexpensively shipped. pended a slight distance above the underlying Other objects; of the invention will appear as row of nests by means such as the bracket I2.

l the following description of a preferred and This not only provides ventilation for the nests, 10 practical embodiment thereof proceeds. but makes it possible to clean or renovate the In the drawing throughout the several figures nests in any row without disturbing the other of which the same characters of' reference have rows. The top board I3 of a tier may be slanted been employed to designate identical parts: if desired to shed rain.

l Figure 1 represents a multiple arrangement of It will be observed that the low-er edge 4 of 15 hens nests embodying the principle of my inthe entrance openings is spaced some distance vention; above the bottom edge of the side wall structure Figure 2 is a side sectional View through a hens providing a laterally enclosed space to receive the nest showing the lower portion of a superposed nest bedding I4. When it is desired to clean the 2Q nest; nests or renew the bedding, the side wall struc- 20 Figure 3 is a cross section taken along the line tures are slidably removed from the supporting 3 3 of Figure 2; and bottom board I0. The board can then be scraped Figure 4 shows a plurality of the side wall with a hoe or brushed or in any other desired blanks nested for shipping. manne-r cleaned or disinfected. The side wall Referring now in detail to the several figures, structures can then be replaced and new bedding 25 the numeral I represents in general the side wall supplied. structure of the hens nest which is of bendable If, and as is preferred, the side wall structures sheet material and preferably of metal although are made of metal or other non-absorbent mait is to be understood that the invention is not terial, they can be immersed in a tub of scalding restricted to the use of metal. The side wall water or disinfectant liquid for the purpose of 30 structure is open at the top and bottom and proinhibiting or exterminating vermin. lf of metal vided with a lateral entrance opening 2, rIhis they can even be subjected to fire without opening may be of any desired shape. Preferably damage. ,p it is a continuous arc 3 at the top and sides and One of the advantages of a cylindrical side wall has a flat circumferential edge 4 at the bottom. structure is that when it is desired to make a 35 Although the edges of the sheet material may be hen Stay on her nest for brooding purposes, any left unnished at the top and bottom and around one of the nests upon which a broody hen may the entrance opening, it is preferred to bend the be found, may be rotated so as to bring the enmaterial over as indicated at 5 and B forming a trance to the rear as for example against the ,10 close bead. wall of a hen house or barn, without rotating the While the side wall structure may be set up in bedding or disturbing the hen. After a day or cylindrical form at the place of manufacture, two, or when the hen has acquired the urge to it will facilitate the convenience and reduces the remain, the side wall structure may be again rocost of shipping if the sheet material is formed tated to a position in which the hen may leave l5 at the factory with the elements of an open seam, her nest. v 45 namely, the oppositely turned flanges 'I and 8, It will be understood from the above descripsee Figure 4. When the side wall structure tion that I have provided a hens nest having al1 reaches its place of destination, the turned edges the advantages as above described and without 'I and 8 are interlocked and mashed together corners or crevices which would make it diffi- .50 forming a closed seam as indicated at 9 inFigcult to keep clean and free from vermin and 50 ure 3. while I believe that the form of my invention as The nest is composed by placing one or more illustrated and describedis simple and thoroughly of the side wall structures I upon a flat board practical, it will be understood that it is within or other similar supporting member I0. No fasthe scope of the invention to vary the details; of tening means are used, the side Wall structure construction and arrangement and still be With- 55 in the protection accorded by the appended claim.

What I claim is:

Nest colony including a bottom board and a plurality of open bottomed cylindrical side wall structures, freely set on said board, each having an entrance above the lower edge of said side Wall structure providing a laterally enclosed space below said entrance for nest bedding, and

a top board slightly spaced from said side wall structures serving as a closure for the upper end of said structures, and adapted to serve as a bottom for a superposed row of nests, said side Wall structures being rotatable upon said bottom board to reverse position Without rotating the bedding which rests upon said bottom board.

WALTER F. LEIBENGUTH 

